"Shine Your Love"

Fat Possum

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The latest single from Cleveland's Gap Dream is a pop tune with a regal, elegant introduction. After the keyboard mimics a set of horns, Gabriel Fulvimar sings, "Everybody in this whole wide world has gone straight up insane." The song's got the proper air of Village Green Preservation Society, but Fulvimar grounds the pastoral instrumentals with lines about drinking gin and phrases that belong more in a 2013 conversation than in a Kinks or Syd Barrett song. Even when he's comparing love to "the rays of the sun," the result is pleasant, never outright saccharine.